JPEGMAFIA Brazil Altercation Video Leaves Fans Curious: Watch

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JPEGMafia performs live on stage during Primavera Sound Festival at Distrito Anhembi on November 6, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.(Photo by Mauricio Santana/Getty Images)
Some say Peggy was overcharged while shopping at a local mall. Others accuse the New York rapper of stealing.

When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, some leave behind old grudges more easily than others. It appears that Latto and Ice Spice are bringing their feud into 2024, already having sent subliminal shots at each other online while teasing new music. Elsewhere, the Christian community is taking issue with Lil Nas X leaning into God on his new music, and the internet is still recovering from all the shade thrown by Katt Williams on his Club Shay Shay podcast. As for Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, the New York rapper better known as JPEGMAFIA, January is off to an interesting start down in Brazil.

In the early hours of Wednesday (January 10), the 34-year-old was enjoying a shopping trip on camera at a local mall. He and a white woman were shopping together, Hendricks clearly enjoying the warmer weather in his short shorts. The dramatic clip doesn't give much context as to what happened, though we can tell that the "Thug Tears" hitmaker wasn't happy as a result of the attention he was getting. As a group of store employees confront Peggy and the women he's with, he notably goes off on them, yelling as the crowd backs into the store they came out of.

JPEGMAGIA Drama Unfolds During Shopping Trip

"Apparently Peggy got scammed by a famous sportswear store for charging $2K of stuff he wasn't buying," one Instagram user wrote as footage circulates. "He called the cops, and I heard from others that it got solved." Another chimed in with a similar response, speculating, "Peggy was in Brazil. They [probably] tried to overcharge him for [something]. Normal scenario when a gringo is shopping."

Thankfully, JPEGMAFIA's time in South America hasn't been a total disaster. In the hours before the video of him beefing with locals at the mall went viral, the East Coast lyricist posed for a series of photos with infamous streamer iShowSpeed. Is seeing this duo spending time together surprising? Let us know in the comments, and check back later for more pop culture/music news updates.

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.
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